Joost Binnerts
Joost Binnerts (MD) graduated as a general doctor in 2016 at the VU University in Amsterdam. After completing residencies in surgery and intensive care, he worked as a researcher in the Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Tanzania in 2018. Subsequently he finished his specialization as a doctor in Global Health and Tropical Medicine at Shirati KMT Hospital, where he works to this day. Together with Jovine Okoth he set up the project ‘Building Bridges for Broken Bones’, which attempts to test a collaboration between the local hospital and the district’s traditional bonesetters, for the benefit of fracture patients.
Erik Erichsen
Dr. Erik Erichsen is a Danish/Swedish surgeon who spent a significant part of his professional career in low-resource settings, primarily in Africa. He is known from the documentary ‘The Rebel Surgeon,’ which features his work at a rural hospital in Ethiopia he ran together with his wife Sennait. He started that after working for 30 years in Norway and Sweden as an orthopedic surgeon. In the movie he explains, why he prefers the material poverty and spiritual richness of his African hospital to the well equipped European operating theatres serving spiritually impoverished societies with an overwhelming bureaucracy. The need for innovation and creativity is turned into a positive force.
Jerry K. Eshun
Jerry K. Eshun is a Family Physician Specialist and the Clinical Care Coordinator at the St Martin de Porres Hospital, Eikwe, Ghana. He has worked in a resource deprived environment in Ghana for the past 12 years and trained healthcare professionals in areas of
- Paediatric Nutrition
- HIV care for the attainment of the 90 90 90 target
- Reduction in malaria case fatality
- Neonatal Care
- Maternal Health
- Clinical excellence and customer service in healthcare
His areas of interest are in general family practice, general surgery, pain management, diabetes care, quality improvement and healthcare customer service.
Jerry is a dedicated husband and father of three and an exceptional family practitioner with extensive experience as a surgeon performing operations in Gynecology and Obstetrics, General Surgery, Trauma and Urology.
Paul S.K. Glover
Dr. Paul Glover, a Ghana native, is a member of the Canadian College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. He is an Emergency Physician at Timmins and District Hospital, Ontario, Canada, after training in Emergency Medicine at Kumasi, Ghana, and Critical Care at Korle Bu Medical School in Accra and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Paul has extensive experience working in low resource settings in rural Ghana and can now look at that with his newly minted HIC perspective. He has graduated from Maxim Gorky Donetsk National Medical University in Ukraine and has always been a dedicated teacher and interested in shaping hospital structures. Beyond that he is known by his friends as a ‘true family-man’.
Laëlle Mangurat
Dr. Laëlle Mangurat recently got her Master’s degree in Public health (MPH) from the University of South Florida and has after that returned to her native Haïti to continue working as a general surgeon. In Port-au-Prince she has held positions as lecturer and clinical instructor at the Université d’État d’Haïti while working in different places of the country, among them Hôpital MSF Tabarre, the capital’s most important trauma center. Laëlle is a member of the Haitian Association of Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons and has done research with Harvard’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and published accordingly. She has a great future as a female surgical leader from a Low and Middle Income Country before her.
Ismail Mohammed Ali
Ismail Mohamed Ali (MD), is head of Otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery at Ministry of health Somalia, researcher and
chief department at Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training and Research Hospital–Mogadishu-Somalia. He has previous experience with war zone maxillofacial trauma surgeries and head and neck cancer surgery in low-resource setting.
Isaac Mubezi
Dr. Isaac Mubezi was trained as a surgeon in Uganda where he is now heading the Department of Surgery at Iganga District Hospital: He also founded and serves now as CEO of Hope and Healing Center, a rural based community hospital in his home village. Isaac is a member of the Association of Surgeons of Uganda and sits on the National Ethics Committee of the Uganda Medical Association. He has enjoyed several training courses, among them the Oxford Global Surgery Course, in the UK. Dr. Mubezi has turned down other attractive training opportunities abroad in order to continue serving a large disadvantaged patient population in rural Eastern Uganda and training the next generation of surgeons and other medical professionals there. All this with a dedication nurtured by compassion and love for the rural poor and supported by his wife and three children.
Jovine Okoth
Jovine Okoth is currently working as a Nurse Tutor in the Shirati college of Health sciences in Tanzania where he is teaching and supervising students. He has a diploma in nursing, midwifery and teaching education. He’s co-investigator in the bonesetters project together with Joost Binnerts.
